In the videos shot Friday at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., a group of students from Covington Catholic High School surround a Native American elder banging a drum. One teenager wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat stands inches away from the elder, identified as Nathan Phillips, after Phillips approached the group.

The videos have spread all over the Internet and social media this weekend and are being analyzed and debated.

In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a Covington Catholic High School student wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington, D.C.(Photo: Survival Media Agency via AP)

One the biggest unanswered questions: Where were the chaperones?

The Enquirer has also tried to find and connect with chaperones.

The Diocese of Covington, the organizers of the trip and officials with Covington Catholic have not returned messages from The Enquirer asking that question.

A group of students from Covington Catholic were attending the March for Life rally.

Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student shown in the video the Native American activist, said in a lengthy statement issued Sunday night: "I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at 4:30 p.m. I was told to be there by 5:30 p.m., when our busses were due to leave Washington for the trip back to Kentucky. We had been attending the March for Life rally, and then had split up into small groups to do sightseeing."

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"Second, where were the chaperones?" wrote Father James Martin, consultant to the Vatican's secretariat of communications. "The idea that a group of Catholic high school students were placed, either wittingly or unwittingly, in such an incendiary situation, seems to indicate a lack of oversight."

Second, a more practical, pastoral, concern: where were the chaperones? The idea that a group of Catholic high school students appeared to have been placed, wittingly or unwittingly, in such an incendiary situation, seems to indicate a lack of oversight. 8/